More to consider in speaking policy

Here's a Flint Journal letter to the editor for March 1, 2009: (Give your view on this letter in the comments area below)

In response to Monday's editorial "Be reasonable": The only thing the Supervisor Karyn Miller wants to do differently with how the public addresses the board at meetings is to have a say on whether a speaker can speak longer than three minutes. She also wants to stop a policy in which another person at the meeting can donate minutes to someone who wants more than his or her allotted time.

Two things should have been included in the editorial. First, Miller scaled back several changes she had wanted to put in place regarding the new code of conduct rules, which were recently approved.

Secondly, it should have been noted that Trustees Belenda Parker and Barbara Vert voted no on the proposed changes.

I do not have a problem with citizens speaking longer than three minutes, if they conduct themselves in a polite, orderly manner.